Self Portrait with Fish

Just a very quick sketch that I did this morning. It seems, judging by photos from my early childhood, all I ever did was hold strings of fish. This is a sketch from a photo from those times. I might add, if you can't tell from the sketch, which is again, very quick and rough, I am also eating a Popsicle. I can't do anything more than quick sketches right now as my right index finger is all swollen and seems to be infected. That's all for now...

Edited to add the actual photo because it's funny.

A quick little painting and a quick little post...

Hey gentle blog readers. It's me again. I'm afraid that my evening labor did not allow me to produce a good piece of fruit. It strayed far from my original idea which is fine, but it is not a pretty piece of fruit. It is a bit bruised and battered I have to say. I like to stray, but sometimes straying makes for a not so good picture. Should I try coming up with an idea and sticking to it until the end or is it better to stray? But really, this not so good painting doesn't warrant deep thought about straying or not straying, it just is what it is. The one thing I never go for with painting is realism. Maybe I should try that sometime and see what I come up with. At least the original painting looks better than the scan.

Do I have anything else to talk about tonight? Hmmm.... I don't think so. Right now I'm just typing for the sake of typing. I do like the feel of the keys under my fingers even if I'm not saying anything interesting. I like to type.

Hiatus over?

Well, hopefully... It really has been a long time and unlike the t.v. shows, I didn't even feature re-runs. But then again, are t.v. shows even run again anymore? Don't they just fill the summer hours with inane reality t.v.? I was looking at my blog and saw that I took a much briefer break last summer, but returned right around this time as well. I haven't been drawing much at all, but did this sketch last night. It was a quickie from the weekend drawing event photos selection. I don't have much to say, actually. I have to get back into the groove gradually, I think...